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{ Monthly Archives } June 2004

Chai Blues @ YVR

If you’re fly­ing out of Van­couver Inter­na­tional Air­port through gates E91 — E96 (part of the U.S. depar­tures area), avoid the coffee/snackbar there.

2004 06 10 General
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Balzac and China

This month’s book­club book was “Balzac and the Little Chinese Seam­stress: A Novel” by Dai Sijie, which has received rave reviews from all over. I found it a nice, easy read that touched on some extremely dif­fi­cult sub­jects (the Cul­tural Revolu­tion, the dif­fi­culties of peas­ant life, life’s inequit­ies, abor­tion, and failed dreams) extremely lightly. The […]

2004 06 02 Books Comments Off